When he returned home, as soon as he put down his burden, Liu Qingshan reported to his mother: "Mom, guess what happened in the mountains just now?"

The mother was feeding the chickens and ducks in the big yard, and when she heard her son ask, she shook her head in confusion: "What happened?"

"My dad got a wild boar. Liu Qingshan looked at his father who walked into the house angrily, and said to his mother, "My dad lied to the two of us in the morning, he didn't go to the fruit forest to fertilize at all, I met him in the mountains, I guess, what you said before is right, my dad is messing with some women in the village." ”

"What nonsense are you. As soon as she heard her son's words, her mother's face immediately changed, and she reprimanded her son, "Qingshan, you are in your twenties, how can you talk too much? Can I take seriously what I said when I quarreled with your father? If I haven't seen it with my own eyes, can I talk nonsense? That's your father." ”

Hearing that his mother was not on his side, Liu Qingshan was still a little aggrieved: "But I really met my father in the mountains." You say, he lied to us that he went to the fruit forest, but he didn't go, but he appeared in the mountains, so what good thing could it be?"

The mother looked at Liu Yuanhe, who was drinking tea in the house, sighed, and said to her son: "Qingshan, in fact, I knew early on that your father didn't go to the fruit forest, he went to dig bamboo shoots." ”

"Huh?"

"Your dad doesn't want you to look down on him, you know? He wants to prove himself with practical actions, to prove that he is still young, to prove that he can still make money. He wants to do more work and save more money for you while he still has a little strength, you know? Qingshan, how uncomfortable is you for wronging your dad just now? Even if he doesn't show it, you must know that your dad is not a hard-hearted person, and his heart is also made of meat. ”

Mother's words were like a knife, instantly cutting through the veil that separated Liu Qingshan's eyes.

He turned his head to look at his father, who was sitting on the stone threshold of the gate, with his back against the wooden frame. The setting sun fell on the black tiles above the patio in the house, and then faintly reflected the half-white hair of my father.

He felt sour in his heart and said, "Mom, then my father's bamboo shoots must have fallen where he met a wild boar, and I went into the mountains to help him carry them back." ”

"Aoyama, forget it, don't go. When my mother saw that he was about to leave, she hurriedly shouted, "It's getting dark, a load of bamboo shoots, don't want it." ”

"How can this work?" Liu Qingshan sniffed, "That's the bamboo shoots that my dad dug up." ”

As he spoke, he was stopped by his mother and walked towards the mountain with extremely fast steps.

The mother watched her son's back disappear at the bend of the mountain road, and sprinkled a handful of millet on the ground, and the chickens and ducks rushed to gather on the ground scattered with the grain.

She walked into the house, and when she reached the threshold, she deliberately kicked Liu Yuanhe's foot: "Why, at this age, you can't stand a few words from young people? ”

"Hmph, who's uncomfortable?" Liu Yuanhe put his feet away and handed the empty bowl that still had residual warmth in his hand to the old woman, "Pour me another bowl without chopped green onions, this tea is not hot enough, and the green onions are not ripe." ”

My mother took the big porcelain bowl and said as she walked to the kitchen: "You two fathers and sons are really the same, they are both knife-mouthed tofu hearts." Although your stupid son said that you were not, as soon as he heard that the bamboo shoots you dug had fallen into the mountains, he immediately went to help you find them. ”

"What?" Liu Yuanhe stood up with a hula, "What did you just say?"

He had just been drinking tea, and he hadn't noticed anything on the other side of the yard. Besides, the yard was too big, and he didn't pay attention to what the two of them were saying over there.

The old mother walked out of the kitchen door and said word by word: "I said, your stupid son went into the mountains to find bamboo shoots for you." ”

As soon as he heard this, Liu Yuanhe stomped his feet and said hurriedly: "Oh, you are confused, how can you let him go to find the bamboo shoots?

Thinking that his son might meet a wild boar of more than 200 catties face-to-face, Liu Yuanhe was so anxious.

He turned his head and walked into the upper room, which was only a hallway away from the kitchen, and began to rummage through it.

My mother said with some displeasure: "What did I tell him to go into the mountains to find bamboo shoots, as soon as he heard that you left the bamboo shoots behind, he said that they were bamboo shoots dug by his father, and he had to find them back, what does it matter to me." ”

"Oh, you don't have to say a word. Liu Yuanhe rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and said anxiously, "Where did you put my pig-killing knife that stabbed the pig's neck?"

Mom turned her head and brought a big kitchen knife: "Is it this?"

Liu Yuanhe looked at it, patted his thigh and said hurriedly: "It's not this one, it's the sharp knife with a long handle, similar in shape to the leaves of the zongzi, the one that specifically stabs the neck." ”

"You don't put your things away yourself, you ask me, how do I know?" The old mother saw that the old man was really anxious, so she comforted, "Oh, why are you in a hurry, don't you see that our Qingshan alone can pick up two or three hundred catties of heavy objects? Are you still afraid that he can't beat the wild boar?"

This is truly a woman's opinion.

Liu Yuanhe lay on the ground, flipped through the broken shoes and socks under the bed, ate ashes and said: "What do you know? Do you think that you can beat a wild boar if you can afford to carry a heavy object of two or three hundred catties? The fur of the wild boar can't even be scraped with a stone, so he has two meat fists, what can he do to fight the wild boar? The wild boar just gave him a hoof, which was enough for him to lie down for ten days and half a month. When something really happens to him, you will regret it. ”

I thought that my mother would be worried after listening to Liu Yuanhe's words, but she didn't want to, she just smiled and said: "Haha, it's not so coincidental, the wild boar is a pig, and it doesn't know that Qingshan will turn back, it must have left early, and it won't meet it." ”

"Then if it's a coincidence, it's really happening. ”

"If we really meet, then we will have a second child, anyway, now the country is also open to the second child. ”

Liu Qingshan wanted to hear his mother's words, and he was probably angry.

However, he had already arrived at the place where he met his father in the mountains, so he couldn't hear his mother's words.

Ordinary people have to spend an hour walking to this place, but he has a divine blessing, and it only takes ten minutes to come here.

He first checked some of the terrain, then walked around the sandalwood forest and walked a long way around the top of the sandalwood forest. Above the sandalwood forest, there is a path just as my father said.

He walked down the path, and when he was halfway there, he really saw two bags of bamboo shoots.

The reason why I recognized it as a bamboo shoot at a glance was because the snakeskin bag had been broken with a large hole, and the bamboo shoots contained in it were gnawed beyond recognition.

It seems that this is the masterpiece of wild boar.

Liu Qingshan squatted down, looking at these bamboo shoots that had died in vain, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

It's not that I'm uncomfortable for these bamboo shoots that lost my boar's mouth, it's because I'm sorry for my father.

If my father saw that his day's labor income was ruined like this by wild boars, it is estimated that his heart would be bleeding so much.

In addition to bamboo shoots, Liu Qingshan also saw a hoe lying quietly on the ground.

He was stunned for a moment, then looked back at the mountain behind him, and saw a bamboo forest on the mountainside near the valley.

Without thinking too much, he picked up the hoe and walked towards the bamboo forest.